Saturday!

Woke up early today, and had my favorite, easy breakfast:

An Amy's Organic breakfast burrito! I absolute love these, but they are really pricey ($2.75-3+ a piece). It, along with a glass of OJ, was the perfect fuel for day #2 at the gym.

The gym was nice... especially because today it was almost empty.

• 30 minutes on the treadmill, 3.6 mph pace on a 4.0 incline
• 30 minutes on bike, level 8 weight loss interval setting

It was not as intense as yesterday, but it felt good. On the treadmill I kept wanting to go faster, but I like walking on an incline (feel the burn!), and I don't want to either be walking/inclining so much that I feel the need to hold on to the bar in front of me. I wish I could try running, but I feel like I would slow down or speed up randomly and be flung off ;-) Running attempts will be left for solid ground.

After my workout, I headed home to get Kyle and we headed out to lunch... sushi!

I love this place in Laurel, MD Asahi Sushi. It has a pretty decent lunch buffet of sushi and hot items. It's not high-grade sushi, but for $12 all you can eat it's pretty tasty, and better than a lot of places outside of DC.

I had 2 plates of sushi, along with 2 scoops of kimchi, my favorite asian salad.

Rules for success at sushi restaurants:

1. Limit your soy sauce intake. The serving size is one tbsp, ONE TABLESPOON. I guestimated that as I poured into my dish, and did not replenish it
2. Same with ginger; what do you think is in the pickling juice? (sodium)
3. Avoid tempura (fried) filled or covered rolls
4. Avoid rolls covered in sauces (they are Americanized and mayo based in most cases)
5. Try to get ones with lots of veggies
6. DO NOT drink a lot of water; sushi is not super filling to begin with, but if you stomach is full of water and/or expanded rice, you will leave feeling full, but begging for food in a hour

Two plates my seem like a lot, but

• I didn't use all my soy sauce
• I only got 2 rolls with sauce
• I think there were only 3 rolls with little bits of cream cheese in them

It was delish, but my favorite sushi place is actually Yoyogi Sushi in Gaithersburg. It has the highest grade sushi for the lowest price I have ever found!

After lunch we ran some errands, and I sipped a tall soy awake tea latte:

Then around 4 I had a snack of Annie's Cheddar Bunnies:

My roommate is having a President's Day party tonight, so I'm not sure I'll be blogging again today. Actually, I may not be able to blog until Monday. Valentine's Day (my favorite holiday!) is tomorrow, and we have a full day planned :-)

Happy (almost) President's and Valentine's Day!